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Codfish Island
Codfish Island or Whenua Hou is a small island () located to the west of Stewart Island/Rakiura in southern New Zealand. It reaches a height of close to the south coast. The English name refers to the endemic blue cod or rawaru / pakirikiri, which is fished commercially in surrounding waters by trapping in baited pots. Whenua Hou means "new land" in Maori.〔(Te Kohanga Ote Whenua Hou, pers comm )〕 Codfish Island is home to Sirocco, an internationally famous kakapo.
==Wildlife==
Following the eradication of possums and weka, Codfish is a predator-free bird sanctuary and the focus of kakapo recovery efforts. It holds the majority of the breeding population of critically endangered kakapo. Its most famous resident is Sirocco, a kakapo born in 1997; Sirocco was the government's "Official Spokesbird for Conservation" in 2010.
Codfish Island is also home to southern short-tailed bats, kākā, fernbirds, red-fronted and yellow-crowned parakeets, little penguins, Pacific black ducks and a recently introduced population of yellowheads (mohua). The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for several species of seabirds, including Fiordland and yellow-eyed penguins, and mottled, Cook's and South Georgia diving petrels.〔BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Codfish Island. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31 January 2012.〕
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